Tom DeLay

Casino Jack: Pointlessly Manic and Missing an Edge

What (Pardon, Who) Do the Trinity River Project and Tom DeLay Have in Common?

Bill Ceverha​In my narrow and twisted personal universe, everything is about the trinity River Project, even today's closing arguments in Austin in the money laundering trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Follow me into the labyrinth. People ask me all the time, "Who's behind thi ... More >>

Casino Jack & The United States of Money

Bill Ceverha​In my narrow and twisted personal universe, everything is about the trinity River Project, even today's closing arguments in Austin in the money laundering trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Follow me into the labyrinth. People ask me all the time, "Who's behind thi ... More >>

What in the Wide World of Sports ...?

​There are probably a million more important things with which to begin the work week -- like, oh, a passel of Hicks Sports Group creditors asking the National Hockey League whether the beleaguered owner of the Texas Rangers has dough enough to keep the Dallas Stars -- but this breaking, um, news? ... More >>

SEC Says Texas Financier Sir Allen Stanford Swindled Investors Out of Billions.

It didn't have to happen.

The Big Rich Author Plunges the Stake Deep in the Heart of "Texas Power"

Bryan Burrough was in town earlier this week to sell a few copies of his must-read tome The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. Been looking forward to the book ever since September, matter of fact, when Vanity Fair excerpted a chapter that made mention of H.L. Hunt stro ... More >>

Harris County GOP Boss Says Fred Baron's Money is "Tainted"

Bryan Burrough was in town earlier this week to sell a few copies of his must-read tome The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. Been looking forward to the book ever since September, matter of fact, when Vanity Fair excerpted a chapter that made mention of H.L. Hunt stro ... More >>

A Former Dallas Democrat Seeks to Become the State's Most Powerful Prosecutor

Bryan Burrough was in town earlier this week to sell a few copies of his must-read tome The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. Been looking forward to the book ever since September, matter of fact, when Vanity Fair excerpted a chapter that made mention of H.L. Hunt stro ... More >>

Sharon Keller is Texas' Judge Dread

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Lunch With the Trinity Muckety-Mucks

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Tom DeLay Wishes The News Dead. Wait...Tom Who?

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Laura Miller and Bill Ceverha, Cutting Down a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Footing the Bill

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Man, They Really Want to Make Sure Craig Watkins Doesn't Screw This Up

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

"Eat My Bush" and Other Likely Signs

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Sore Winners and Losers

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

Supreme Suspense

When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

A Fallen Star Is Born

Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

Time for "The Times" To Weigh in on DeLay Doc

Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

Smarty Pants

Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

Damned Hollywood Liberals

Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

The Truthiness Is, He's Scary

Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

The Hammer and the Nailing

Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

The End Is Near

Famine, pestilence, war, death--at Dallas Theological Seminary, the Apocalypse is the horse to bet on

The Lone Ranger

Right, but not quite right, Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher is reforming county government while infuriating her Republican colleagues

No DeLay

Bad politics is good business for filmmakers

Bubba Patrol

The Minutemen are ready to patrol Texas' border. Are we ready for them?

Trip to Bountiful

Oh, the talent given us at this year's remarkable Dallas Video Festival

Queu's Who

How do you get past a bouncer?

Monkey Business

Buzz picks a few nits with the year that was

Greener Pastures

Wanna move to Canada? Write an essay about it.

Letters

Wanna move to Canada? Write an essay about it.

Fog of War

A group of veterans says John Kerry stretches the truth about his Vietnam service. Who can you believe? Who knows?

Amateur Hour

Congressional candidate Mike Murphy feels the strong arm of the GOP

Sacrificed Fly

What factors make for the ideal wingman?

Enron's End Run

To make a mess as big as the Enron debacle, you need some friends in high places--Texas Senator Phil Gramm and his wife, for instance

No idle threat

To make a mess as big as the Enron debacle, you need some friends in high places--Texas Senator Phil Gramm and his wife, for instance

Sweating it out in Saipan

While other major retailers settle sweatshop lawsuits, J.C. Penney insists everything's cool

Letters

While other major retailers settle sweatshop lawsuits, J.C. Penney insists everything's cool

Our Man in Saipan

Dick Armey thinks he's found a free-market paradise in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory where the workers never complain, the factories never quit, and wages are so low, even welfare mothers can hire a Filipino maid